President Obama is a small, petty man.
President Obama has added to his schedule an 11:30 am ET video conference with America’s top allies to discuss the situation in Ukraine, ensuring that neither he nor them will watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plea before Congress and the world to reconsider the Iran nuclear deal.
Netanyahu is scheduled to appear at 11:00 am. He likely won’t get going until several minutes later and will probably not even be at the halfway point by 11:30. And presumably, the Western leaders will be preparing for the meeting when he starts.
The video conference, which was scheduled just this morning, will include British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and European Commission President Donald Tusk. Obama will participate from the White House Situation Room.
Thomas Friedman on the Israeli PM’s speech to Congress
” I’ve got a better plan, and it won’t cost any sacrifice by the American people . The guy could be a Congressman . ”
“My problem with Netenyahu is that he warned that the interim deal negotiated with Iran – which froze and rolled back parts of Irans nuclear program and created these negotiations – would lead to a collapse of the sanctions and would be violated by Iran .
None of that happened .”